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Now. fox & friends first continues right now. good wednesday morning to you and your family. welcome to fox and friends first if you re just waking up. it is half past the top of the hour. right to that fox news alert for you. gut-wrenching video could send a police officer to death row for shooting an unarmed black man. good morning to all of you at home. that witness video giving north charleston police enough evidence to arrest one of their own men for murder. [ gun fire ] just listen to that. you can see walter lamar scott running from officer slager as he fired eight shots at the black 50 year old coast guard veteran and father of four. it happened during a routine ....
Every shot in this video is from the back. so if the autopsy bears that out, you should have had some detectives saying wait a minute we have mr. scott shot in the back five times, even before this surfaced. but it is a blockbuster video that shows a cold blooded murder and shows the officer go back get the taser and try to drop it next to mr. scott to try to make it look justified. mark claxton, if we have an honest police report by the other officer on the scene there, one who kneels down and takes the pulse of the victim an honest police report would say that he saw the officer slager pick up the raiser and bring it back and plant the taser at what we now know as the death scene or the murder scene. an honest police report would ....
Willing to speak out. gabe, thanks for that. joining me now for more, ari melber. ari, what s your read on the situation going forward? is it likely i guess the prosecutors could have another trial right now. they could try officer slager again. is it likely that they will? we ve spoken to several prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys in south carolina. all said that if the mistrial occurred, which looked likely as of friday given those jury notes that we ve reported on, that they would expect at least one attempt at a retrial, especially if, as the foreperson suggested, the majority of the jurors, at least at a certain point in time, were looking to convict. the holdout juror s notes said he didn t think he could convict in, quote, unquote, good conscience. once that was written down and released to the judge, it was hard to imagine that individual reversing. so prosecutors legally can start with a clean slate and retry. the officer, any defendant, is presumed innocent as we ....
Lives matter. and show officers out there doing their job, they are not michael slager. it was a total fumble today. justice delayed is justice denied, do you believe that? or do you think in the end they will get justice? justice delayed. he bought a few more months out of jail. he will end up behind prison bars where he deserves. i wonder what it was like to hear officer slager on the stand. what was it like? i wasn t there that day. that was the only day out of the whole trial that i missed. and i think it was god s meaning for me not to be there. i did watch it via the computer and just listening to him. his testimony did not match what actually happened. there was just lies there. and you could tell he was lying. ....
Dropped near the body? those are the huge unanswered questions that this dash cam video does not help us to answer. that dash cam video getting released by the south carolina law enforcement division. we were discussing last night how they are the investigatory bod for officer-involved shooting. some reporting today from unnamed officials basically saying, we had some questions when we showed up at the site of that shooting and saw what looked pretty clearly like entry wounds in walter scott s back. exactly. and we do know that there were approximately eight shots fired from officer slager s gun. five of them hit walter scott, four of them hit him in the back, one hit him in the ear. none of those shots hit him from the side nothing from the front. he was definitively shot in the back, as we of course saw in that now-infamous cell phone video. but my biggest question would be the second officer on the scene. the african-american officer who arrives some time around the time that of ....